Kirsan Ilyumzhinov commented on the ban FIDE issued for Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong. Let us remind you, FIDE Ethics Committee found Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong guilty of breaching the FIDE Code of Ethics for their conduct during the FIDE presidential elections.

We have already reported on the exhibition match of 2 rapid games between Garry Kasparov and Yoshiharu Habu, in which the chess champion had defeated the shogi champion twice. Now the full video from the Tokyo event is available. Kasparov's postmortem commentary on the games start approximately at 2 h 53 min.

"I will support Kirsan Ilyumzhinov because he did a lot for the development and popularization of chess," Itar-Tass quotes Sergey Karjakin. "A lot of strong competitions have been introduced thanks to him, World Cup, FIDE Grand Prix, World Rapid and Blitz championships among those."